Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
Extending on his earlier comments in a press conference at NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium (6 June 2002)
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters. We don't want them to be just shadows, for merely as moving figures they provoke no emotional response from the public. We invest them with life a caricature of life.
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Don Conroy was larger than life and there was never a room he entered that he left without making his mark. At some point in his life, he passed from being merely memorably to being legendary.
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The silvery tree opens to an empty sky - maybe it is better that I am not your husband.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.
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Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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I believe this judgment should firmly convince any trade unionist that it is useless hoping for justice in the courts of this land. The only way we are going to obtain justice in my view is by fighting for democracy as our forefathers did in establishing the trade union and Labour movements.
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
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I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
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It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.
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When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.
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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
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I think I have a period drama face. That's the reason I've always gone back to the West End, because for me, that's where all the interesting roles have been.
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One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.
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The three people I've always wanted to meet are Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly and Steven Gerrard.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.
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Extending on his earlier comments in a press conference at NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium (6 June 2002)
